Disappearing bed



Sept. 2, 1930.

N.l SINCLAIR DISIAPPBMING BED Filed .April 4. 1928 2 sheets-sheer y 1 INVENTOR.

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DISAPPEARING BED f Filed April 4. 1928 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 A TTOR NE YS.

Y Patented v Sept." 2, v191i() `NE1L sINcLAIn;OFVOAKLAND; ciinironnrnnssrenon' 'ro nirfvAnWINKLWALL. BED OOMPANm'r-no., or OAKLAND, enuncian-rn, A CORPORATION or chiaroRitiri;` f1'- npplianimi flied; April 4, ieasfseriai nascente...

' This inventionrelates'to wallf beds of the disappearingi type whichzswing. into and out `of a closet or cabinet, and has for, its objects improved construction andarrangementof y ,5 thecabinet or closet members, and` theo'pen vating relationv of a plurality of l.pivotally mountedv beds in relation to. said lmembers whereby abetter concealment of the .bedsis effected when in the. closet, amore compact y arrangementwith apair of givensize beds is produced, and with a minimumV separation of fthe beds when. inv letedown-...position f a v maximumlsize free doorway tothe closet is hada. Also such A a doorway between a Vpair hinged along both vertical edges of-.thel do-or y.inv a manner enabling it to swingV outward from either vertical: edgeso-xas touprov-ide Y clearance for either bedto swing through the In they drawings Fig. lis a horizontal cross-section* of `a cabinet vor closet andi its doors,with a pair of twin bedsconcealed in 'the closet and theirouter position"d'otted,y all arranged inaccordance,withmyiinvention..

Fig. 2 is ai' front elevation of the showing' f einig. 1.z

Fig. 3 is: an .enlargedifverticaljsection of the cabinet or closet entrance, door as seen from 3o the line 3-3 of Fig. 2, Fig. 4 is, anxenlarged fragmentary section of the door as seen from l the line 4 4- of Fig. 2, and Fig. 5 is vafplan view of an optional formy ofrone ofthe door carrying arms.A i l In the `drawings I have illustratedmyf invention with a pair of twinfwall bedsoffthe laterally shifting type, two varietiesof. which are shown in my cop'ending 'applications filed respectively under Serial lNo.'516,939, November 22,V 1921 yand Serial. No.1105,898,

May 1, 1926, therefore no. exhaustivedescription ofY the bed itself willbefrequired here.; and it is desired tosay thatiwhileztlie'maxi# mum benefits of the invention arederived 45 when used with beds which Menon-centrally mountedwith relationto a door, it has value with other types of beds as well..

l In further detail .1 represents the room space defined by a wall 2, and@ ay closet space ljdeiined by a wall 4.

three doors 5, Gand 7.. f

.way so.l that it willswing Open fromgeither n closed bythe small 4 Arlargeopening extendsthrough th'ewal-l I fro-inthe room 1 tothe closet. k and closed .Y

VDoors 5 Vain-d6 are, centrally andvertically pivoted at 8 and 9 so as'to rotate yin their re- Vspectlveportions of the wallopening, and

door 7. is preferably al small door4 anol-y is hinged' at the sidesboth sides-Fin a1 peculiar vertical edge in 'direction arc shown in" Fig. 1.

of1 either dotted vAssociated with. each of the centrally. piv

.oted doors 5? ando is a1 wall. bedy as at. .10 and Y K t l t '11 of the type mentioned and shown as stand,- 5 of spaced wall bedswhich isfitted wi-tha door 'i i 4 ingfupright on end inthe Ycloset'.

These b dsV are eachwiderthan. the,k doors vertical?edges' or rather their 'verticalv edges f i' ,which fare remote fro`m`5vthe .centrali door..Y 7

when thebeds are in the closet, such overlap- `ping in opposite directions respectively fofi the two beds being. denotedby the letter X.

rIhe bedsare pivotally mountedjat 12.-13 onplaterally vextending arms 1%15111 turn Vpivoted concentrically with the door pivots 8 9',- ana Controlled by a nur 0f-11ers as: a 16-'17 18`--19"pivoted at opposite `ends to the. doors andthe beds, or by other means so as to cause thebeds to swing inthe dotted arcs shown when revolved with theirdoors Y so as to bring corner of bed 10 to A. the room, and, corner B Vofibed 11 toposition B in theroonnand after which ythe bedsmay-be 'i I letldown, in the' welleknown manner, to the 85 positions dotted atC, D. K' `When he beds are in the room they will be Observed to each loverlap or extend beyond *thelsame portion off the wall: which they did when inthe closet andin both positions keepv 9o the smalldoor f7V clear, though during their,

swinging movements they both pass partly 'th/rough that portionlofxthe .wallA opening door, and in order to so pass through the doorwaysof the centra-ll door '95 it is manifest the door must be gotten out of o the way-'#irst at one side to pass bed 10and then at the other side to pass bed Y11. In forder to clear kthe smallwdoorwa-y for either bedto pass as described, the small door 1ct` l y can be centrally pivoted if wide enough) but in suchacase the available passa-ge way to the closet would only be'equal to half the width "of the small door and it would accordingly have to be a much wider door so that half of lits width ,would afford an opening large enough for a person to kgo 'in and out of the .f closet.V

j .i y To avoid the necessity of a wide door which makes the installation take up too much room' in modern apartment houses, I have devised the `double swinging door 7 which swings freely from either vertical axis or 21 following either dotted arcto open position 7 or 7 Thus the door is opened from one side to pass one'of the beds, and from the other side to pass the other bedgf To permit the door7 to functioninthe inankkner described I may mount it in a variety of ways, but the two ways shown in Figs. l and care thought siiiliciently illustrative;

In Fig. 1"(al'so Figs. 2, Sand 4) Iy provide a pair of horizontally extending arms 22-23 :sol j of the door sov respectively at the top and bottom of the door and close to the rrear sideof the same.

Thesearms are provided at one end each with a laterally extending bracket 24,--25 each pivoted vertically to the fixed framing on lthe axis 21. The brackets 2425 extend over an upper and lower notch in the .edge asto bring the pivotal axis 2l adjacent :theouter 'right handiedge of the door, while thel other j ends of 'the/arms arel r joined by a vertical piece 26 (in fact the arms v outer` ends yof the arms and enables them to i carry the'weight of door 7 on hinges 27 so l that it may be opened thereon from the right hand side along the dotted line to position 7 vwhereas by swinging'both the door and yoke handside to position 74.. W- Y To align the door within the doorway when on axis 2lthe door will open from the left "closed I provid-e a stop'28 either on the floor`r or on the framing at the top of the door which limits the inward movement of the door land which may also resiliently claspfan/arm so @as to form a friction lock for the door7 andto keep ythe right hand edge of the door from rattling or movingoutof position I provide a latmetal spring stop 29 rsecuredto the door and so arranged that it. also will resiliently clasp the arm or projection therefrom when theidoor is closed as shown in'Fig. r3, or ,any other form of latch may .be used.

vpieces A an extension as at 80 fitted on the end with a stud 31 engaging an arcuate slot in a plate 32 firmly secured to the floor or the framing of the doorway. It being of course evident without further drawings that the stud may e fitted with an anti-friction roller or equivalent if desired.

The construction of door 7 preferably comprises a main panel with two vertical casing A secured to and projecting forwardly from the face of the panel. These vertical casings are set inward from the ex treme edges Vof the door so as to produce a quarter inch or three-eighths of an inch step as at B, .and to the bottom of the door is secured a base board C extending between the vertical casings A-A, but no casing is provided vat the top of the panel.

By the construction described the full realisation of a cf iccaied bed is had the door panel is then painted or papered in conformity with the walls of the room and the two very narrow doors 5 and 6 (shown as glass doors in Fig. 2) give no indication of a wall bed .in stallation. 'l

Since a. pair of door knobs on the little door 7 would be objectionable I preferably provide small hanging rings Y331 by either of which the door may readily be opened.

vI claim:

. l. In a closure for a wall bed installation, the combination of'a pair of spaced` doors mounted in a wall opening to close opposite ends thereof,-l an intermediate door in said opening positioned between said spaced doors toclose the intermediate portion of said wall opening, and means whereby said intermediate door may be swung open from either of its vertical edgesthereby cooperating with either of said spaced doors to provide a wider opening than either spaced door would yield when opened alone.

' 2. A double acting swinging door mounting comprising a door positioned in a doorway, a pair of arms vertically pivoted adjacent one end each above and below the door to the framing of the doorway adjacent one vertical edge of the door, said arms lying substantially horizontal and parallel with saiddoor when closed', and means carried by the other ends of the arms vertically pivoting the door thereto adjacent the opposite vertical edge of the door whereby the door may swing open from either vertical edge.

3. A double acting swinging door mounting comprising a door positioned in a doorway, a pair of arms vertically pivoted adj acentone end each above and below the door 'to the framing of the doorway adjacent one doors, means and means vertical' edge of the door, said arms lying substantially horizontal and parallelV with said door when closed and against the rear face thereon-and means carried by the other ends of the-arms vertically pivoting the` door thereto adjacent'the "opposite vertical edgeV of the doorwhereby the deor may swing open from either .vertical edge, and means .limiting the inward swinging of the outerfends of said arms when the'door' is closed. Y

4. A wall bed installation comprising a pair of spaced doors at opposite ends oi a Wall opening, an intermediate door in the opening closing ate door, meanspivoting the arms at one end,

to the door adjacent oneof its vertical edges, pivoting the opposite ends' ofthe i i arms to a fixed point adjacent the opposite vertical vedge of the door whereby thefdcor Y can swing open from either-vertical edge to f spectively vmountedfadjacent` opposite endsv 1" combine its, opening with` veither of said spaced doors. .j

5. A wall bed' installation'including two wall beds, means whereby the beds are reof a wallopening to swing outof a closet through the opening into a room, and a door for each bed spaced at opposite. ends of thel wall opening Aeach 'of a width rto cover less of said wall opening than required for the bed to pass whereby each bed will inter` sect the space intermediate the spaced doors in passing through the opening.

6.- A wall bed installation including two wall beds, means whereby the beds are respectivelymounted adjacent opposite ends of a wall opening to swing out of a closet through the opening into a room, bed spaced at opposite ends of the wall opening each of a width to cover. less'ofysaid wall opening than lrequired for the bed to pass the spacebetweensaid spaced by which said spaced doors are,

wall opening .intermediate the.` spaced through the opening, an intermediate dOOrr the Vopening of opening each of a-width to cover less of said wall opening than required for the bed to pass whereby each bed will intersect the space .in-

termediate the spaced doors lin passing c through ltheopening, 'and` means mounting said doors for opening with the swinging of their beds 'andclosingtheir respective ends oiIk the wall opening when the beds are in the closet aswell as when in the room. l,

8. A-fwall bed'installation including 'twoV wall'beds, means'wherebythe beds are respectively mounted adjacent opposite ends of a wall opening to swing outofl a closet through the opening into pass whereby each bed will intersect the space doors in Ypassing closing that portion oi' the wall opening in- 'iounting permit. passage ci either bed respectively.

9. A wall 4bed installation includingy two.

wall beds, Vmeans whereby the beds are respectii'eiy mounted adjacentopposite ends of a wailopening through the opveni'ng'into afroom, a. door for a-room, a doo-r for Y eachy bed spaced at oppositeends'o'f the wall opening each of la width to cover lessof said e than vrequired for the bed -t'otermediate the spaced Vdoors and means I Y said intermediatedoor whereby itl lmay be opened lfrein either vertical edge to, l,

to swing outjoi` a closet f each bed spaced at opposite ends of the wall,

opening each of a width to cover less of said wall opening thar` ing through the opening, an intermediate door closing that portionv ofthe wall openinginterinediate the spaced doors and means ypivotally mounting said intermediate doorv Vwhereby it maybe swung open from'either verticaledge to permit passage of eitherbed respectively.v

, levqllired j fori the bed to i passwhereby veach bed will Vintersect lthe* space intermediatethe spaceddoors in passv 10. In a lstructure as specified claim 4,

saidV arms lying against the rear of the intermediate door when same is closed, and means stopping the arms to hold said door aligned in the wall openingin closed position.

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and a door foreach whereby each'bed will*` intersect, the space y' y y intermediate the spaced doors in Vpassing through the opening in overlapping paths of travel. i n n 7. A wall bed installation including two j Y wall beds, means whereby the bedsfare ref spectively mounted adjacent opposite ends of a wall opening to swing out of aV closet through the opening into 'a room, a door for each bedv spaced at opposite-endsof the wall 

